OWS Statement of Purpose!

OWS Statement of Purpose -- 

#1- "We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all people, and because no other reason should be needed. However, this freedom has been largely taken from the people, and slowly made to trickle down, whenever we get angry."

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- #2

"Money, it has been said, has taken over politics. In truth, we say, money has always been part of the capitalist political system. A system based on the existence of have and have not's, where inequality is inherent to the system, will inevitably lead to a situation where the haves find a way to rule, whether by the sword or by the dollar."

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- #3

"We agree that we need to see election reform. However, the election reform proposed ignores the causes which allowed such a system to happen. Some will readily blame the federal reserve, but the political system has been beholden to political machinatio­ns of the wealthy well before its founding."

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- #4

"We need to address the core facts: these corporatio­ns, even if they were unable to compete in the electoral arena, would still remain control of society. They would retain economic control, which would allow them to retain political control. Term limits would, again, not solve this, as many in the political class already leave politics to find themselves as part of the corporate elites."

 

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- #5

"We need to retake the freedom that has been stolen from the people, altogether­."

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- #6

"If you agree that freedom is the right to communicat­e, to live, to be, to go, to love, to do what you will without the imposition­s of others, then you might be one of us."

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- #7

"If you agree that a person is entitled to the sweat of their brows, that being talented at management should not entitle others to act like overseers and overlords, that all workers should have the right to engage in decisions, democratic­ally, then you might be one of us."

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- #8

"If you agree that freedom for some is not the same as freedom for all, and that freedom for all is the only true freedom, then you might be one of us."

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- #9

"If you agree that power is not right, that life trumps property, then you might be one of us."

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- #10

"If you agree that state and corporatio­n are merely two sides of the same oppressive power structure, if you realize how media distorts things to preserve it, how it pits the people against the people to remain in power, then you might be one of us."

 

OWS Statement of Purpose -- Conclusion

"And so we call on people to act

We call for protests to remain active in the cities. Those already there, to grow, to organize, to raise consciousness's, for those cities where there are no protests, for protests to organize and disrupt the system.

We call for workers to not only strike, but seize their workplaces collective­ly, and to organize them democratic­ally. We call for students and teachers to act together, to teach democracy, not merely the teachers to the students, but the students to the teachers. To seize the classrooms and free minds together.

We call for the unemployed to volunteer, to learn, to teach, to use what skills they have to support themselves as part of the revolting people as a community.

We call for the organizati­on of people's assemblies in every city, every public square, every township.

We call for the seizure and use of abandoned buildings, of abandoned land, of every property seized and abandoned by speculator­s, for the people, for every group that will organize them.

We call for a revolution of the mind as well as the body politic."

 

 

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -Paolo Friere-